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Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Act so that the effects of your actions are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.

I try very hard to write in a very orderly and continual disciplined manner.

I like things to be orderly.

I'm a peaceful person once work ethic is established.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

All my work is much more peaceful than I am.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.